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English Sexualities, 1700-1800
Tim Hitchcock
Paperback - $92.95
The eighteenth century witnessed the birth of the first recognisably modern sexual identities. This book charts the development of those identities through the examination of pornography, sexual practice, medical belief, social policy and the culture ...
Industrialisation and Society
Eric Hopkins
Hardcover - $243.95
Provides an essential introduction to the effects of industrialization on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the Welfare State in the 1950s. The book looks at contemporary ways in which the government and ordinary people tri ...
Rereading Sex : Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Paperback - $26.95
From bawdy talk to evangelical sermons, and from celebrations of free love to prosecutions for obscenity, nineteenth-century America encompassed a far broader range of sexual attitudes and ideas than the Victorian stereotype would have us believe. In ...
Chasing Dirt : The American Pursuit of Cleanliness
Suellen Hoy
Paperback - $65.95
Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies, barnyard animals, dust, and dirt ...
Cooking Lessons : The Politics of Gender and Food
Sherrie A. Inness
Paperback - $67.95
Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake--because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many impo ...
Family and Social Change : The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community
Angelique Janssens
Paperback - $96.95
This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: al ...
Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South : The Story of Koinonia Farm
Tracy Elaine KMeyer
Paperback - $47.95
Now available in paperback, Tracy K'Meyer's book is a thoughtful and engaging portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian cooperative founded in 1942 by two white Baptist ministers in southwest Georgia. The farm was begun as an expression of ...
Separatism and Subculture : Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
Paula M. Kane
Paperback - $54.95
Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and ...
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
Amy Kaplan
Paperback - $49.95
Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic ...